Like the popular Middle Eastern dish, our understanding of the Trinity relies on a delicate blend of ingredients. Did one small change to the Nicene Creed alter the recipe, or enhance the original?

Bradley Nassif/ January 8,2014

For the first year of the Global Gospel Project, CT focused on doctrines about the person of Jesus; in year two, we looked at God the Father. For year three of the project, we will look at doctrines related to the Holy Spirit. Recently, the Holy Spirit—specifically ...

Please, keep these discussions within the confines of your theology schools where they do little harm. All theologies consist of abstractions made within culturo-linguistic limitations, based on prevalent philosophies. Theologians make several errors, in my view: (a) Presuming that a well-tuned definition encapsulates ultimate truth. (b) Holding that a theology, once refined and adopted, carries some kind of authority. (c) Imagining that logical deductions, made from theological ideas, must be equally true. (d) Defining biblical words from theology, then transporting those definitions back into the Bible, imagining that the Bible thereby teaches one's theology. (e) Judging others' theologies by their degree of agreement with one's own theology. (f) Making theological propositions a test of orthodoxy or of fellowship. (g) Exalting knowledge of theology over obedience to Scripture. (Sigh.)